Entinen journalisti ja nykyinen baarinpitäjä Nick Dunne tapaa ihastuttavan naisen Amyn ja pian hääkellot soivat. Viidentenä hääpäivänä Amy ilmoitetaan mystisesti kadonneeksi ja kenelläkään ei tunnu olevan minkäänlaista käsitystä mitä on tapahtunut. Nickin ja Amyn kodista löytyy merkkejä rajusta väkivallasta. Etsivät Jim Gilpin ja Rhonda Boney yrittävät selvittää Nick Dunnen osuuttaa Amyn katoamiseen. Jäljet viittaavat siihen, että Amy saattaa olla murhattu, eikä aikaakaan, kun poliisin epäilykset kohdistuvat Nickiin. Nickin lakimies Tanner kehottaa miestä olemaan vain oma itsensä, mutta pian mediankohu pääsee huippuunsa. Poliisin tutkimusten puristuksissa Nickin rakentama kuva auvoisesta avioliitosta alkaa rakoilla. Media puolestaan ristiinnaulitsee miehen, kun paljastuu, että Nick on ollut uskoton vaimolleen. Pian hänen lukuisat valheensa ja outo käytöksensä saavat kaikki kysymään saman synkän kysymyksen: tappoiko Nick Dunne vaimonsa?
Elokuva kertoo yksinhuoltajaäidistä, joka selviytyy vain hädin tuskin hengissä joukkoraiskauksesta. Hänen 12-vuotias tyttärensä on silminnäkijä, mutta oikeudenkäynnin aikana tytön luotettavuus kyseenalaistetaan. Joukkoraiskauksen selvittelystä, selittelystä ja peittelystä tuskastunut etsivä ja sotaveteraani John Dromoor ottaa tapauksen henkilökohtaisesti. Hän lähtee selvittämään itsenäisyyspäivänä tapahtunutta raiskausta ja pyrkii tarjoamaan oikeutta ja lohtua, sekä hakemaan omaa kostoaan.
John Candy ja Eugene Levy ryntäävät päätä pahkaa teollisuusvartijoiksi hassunhauskassa toimitakomediassa Aseistettu ja hirveen vaarallinen! Ikävä kyllä he ryntäävät useimmiten aivan väärään suuntaan! Candy esittämä hutiloiva poliisi ja Levyn esittämä luokaton lakimies saavat potkut. He päätyvät töihin Guard Dog vartiointiliikkeeseen. Vähemmän perusteellisen tuliaseiden käyttökoulutuksen jälkeen he eivät malta odottaa tositoimiin pääsyä. He osoittautuvat kädettömiksi myös teollisuusvartijoina, kun ryöstöjä tapahtuu aivan heidän nenänsä alla. Lopulta he huomaavat että ryöstöt eivät olleet sattumaa ja että vartiointiliike on samassa juonessa ammattiliiton gangsterimaisen johtajan kanssa.
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.
in 1957, black lawyer defends his nephew, who faces the death penalty for murdering a white boy.
Some 20 years ago, two sex workers were murdered in an upper-class Brussels neighborhood. Celebrated Belgian magistrate Anne Gurwez decides to revisit this cold case, pouring over the evidence with the use of new technologies and tracking down then-suspects.
A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (actually a Justice Department agent who has infiltrated the mob) accused of murdering a local TV newscaster.
Rosario was unjustly condemned for a robbery committed in the theater where she worked as secretary of producer Gaston Leducq. When she leaves prison, she tries to prove her innocence to Gaston, but things do not happen as she expected.
A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients.
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
Veteran defense attorney Konrad Biegler and tenacious police inspector Peter Nadler face off in the trial of a man accused of kidnapping a young girl. (Abridged version of Enemies: Against the Clock and Enemies: The Confession, focusing on the ins and outs of the judicial process.)
Chadrasekhar alias Chandru, is a graduate but he cannot find a job so he often goes to jail for earning a living. He lives with his friend Jeeva. Jothi, a fearless criminal lawyer, fights against injustice. Chandru falls in love with Devi while Jothi is in love with Chandru.
A female lawyer who specialises in defending suspected rapists is left traumatised after she herself is assaulted in her own home.
The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the charter boat is wrecked on an isolated island. Unfortunately, there are very few provisions and the group must fend for themselves. They are eventually assisted by a hermit, but before that one of the group goes insane, and another is eaten by an alligator.
Veteran defense attorney Konrad Biegler accepts the defense of a man accused of kidnapping a young girl. At the trial he must face the tenacious police inspector Peter Nadler.
When a young girl is kidnapped, ruthless police inspector Peter Nadler embarks on a race against time to rescue her.
The story is the search of the young Moszkowicz looking for his identity within his Jewish family, he wants to part with his inner demons and wants to break with the negative patterns in his life. In a country where 75 percent of Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, the Moszkowicz family of lawyers stood out as a unique Jewish success story.
Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up the feds, Lanny tackles a baffling espionage case. Things heat up when reporter sweetheart Ollie is framed for murder.
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
The corrupt lawyer Mohaseb Awadallah exploits the small thief Salah to steal important documents from the safe of an investment company. When the lawyer feels that Salah's power is increasing, he gets rid of him through another thief named Shaqroun who carries out the lawyer’s plan.